Dancing to the Drum Machine: How Electronic Percussion Conquered the World

Dancing to the Drum Machine is a never-before-attempted history of what is perhaps the most controversial musical...
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Author: Dan Leroy
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Language: English
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Dancing to the Drum Machine: How Electronic Percussion Conquered the World by Leroy, Dan

Dancing to the Drum Machine: How Electronic Percussion Conquered the World

¥33,595

Dancing to the Drum Machine: How Electronic Percussion Conquered the World

¥33,595
Author: Dan Leroy
Format: Hardcover
Language: English
Dancing to the Drum Machine is a never-before-attempted history of what is perhaps the most controversial musical instrument ever invented: the drum machine. Here, author Dan LeRoy reveals the untold story of how their mechanical pulse became the new heartbeat of popular music. The pristine snap of the LinnDrum. The bottom-heavy beats of the Roland 808. The groundbreaking samples of the E-MUSP-1200. All these machines-and their weirder, wilder-sounding cousins-changed composition, recording, and performance habits forever. Their distinctive sounds and styles helped create new genres of music, like hip hop and EDM. But they altered every musical style, from mainstream pop to heavy metal to jazz.

Dan LeRoytraces the drum machine from its low-tech beginnings in the Fifties and Sixties to its evolution in the Seventies and its ubiquity in the Eighties, when seemingly overnight, it infiltrated every genre of music. Drum machines put some drummers out of work, while keeping others on their toes. They anticipated virtually every musical trend of the last five decades: sequencing, looping, sampling, and all forms of digital music creation. But the personalities beneath those perfect beats make the story of drum machines a surprisingly human one-told here for the very first time.


Author: Dan Leroy
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Published: 11/03/2022
Pages: 336
Binding Type: Hardcover
Weight: 1.33lbs
Size: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.75d
ISBN: 9781501367274

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